Tuch Maajhi Suhaasini
It takes three to tango!
PASAYADAN Chitra’s Marathi offering, Tuch Maajhi Suhaasini, said to be a romantic triangle, has been duly certified by the Central Board of Film Certification and the makers of the film are planning its release in January 2001 at the start of the New Millenium. According to director Satish Randive, the film centres round three main characters — a village youth who goes to Mumbai and becomes a cop, a village maiden who loves him but does not express it, and a mod city girl with whom the cop gets romantically linked. The theme is full of ups and downs in the lives of the trio. Who finally wins over the youth is the crux of the story. By the very nature of its theme, the film has a rural-urban backdrop and appears to be aimed at cinegoers in both regions.

The three main characters in the story have been enacted by Ajinkya Deo, Varsha Usgaonkar and Alka Athalye. The rest of the cast is headed by Sulabha Deshpande, Chandrakant Gokhale, Ravi Patwardhan, Uday Tikekar, Dr Vilas Ujawane, Supriya Pathare, Alka Inamdar and Pinky. Rajshekhar and Babanrao Gholap make guest appearances. While the story and screenplay are by Ramesh Zende, the dialogues have been penned by Pratap Gangavane. Lyrics by Jagdish Khebudkar have been set to music by Nandu Honap. Cinematographed by Prakash Shinde and Chinubhai Shah, it has been edited by Shyam Gupte. Audiography by Anil Nikam, art by Manohar Achrekar and action by Akbar Sharif are the other credits. The film is a Damodar Mhatre, Pravin Gaikwad presentation.

Tuch Maajhi Bhaagyalaxmi
Released in Pune, Nashik
MAHALAXMI Productions’ multi-starrer emotional family drama in Marathi, Tuch Maajhi Bhaagyalaxmi, has been released from Novermber 17 at Pune’s Apollo Cinema (daily 3 shows) and three other suburban Pune theatres: Jayashri at Chinchwad, Vaibhav at Hadapsar and Ashok at Pimpri. It also opened on the same day at Chitramandir Cinema in Nashik.

The film is somewhat of a musical, too, having nine songs, all written by Jagdish Khebudkar and set to music by Nandu Honap. Produced by Mulchandbhai V Patel and directed by Pitamnbar Kale from a story by Hitesh Patel, it has screenplay and dialogues written by veteran Ram Kelkar, the film has been cinematographed by Bhupendra Pandya and Raju Shukla and edited by Ashok Patwardhan.

The dances have been choreographed by Subal Sarkar. It stars Ramesh Bhatkar, Deepak Deoolkar, Kuldeep Pawar, Aishwarya Narkar, Vijay Chavan, Prema Kiran, Ankush Choudhary, Avinash Narkar, Surekha Kudchi, Poojangi Borgaonkar, Jr Dada Kondke, Rajni Chavan and Upasana Singh, who makes her debut on the Marathi screen with this film.

Pandit Shimpi